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Chicago examiner vol xiii no 46 a m saturday rrucc vjimh v~hini suluibi two cknt3 Chicago february 13 1915 saturday regiblered c s patent offic 34 airships shell ostehd in greatest aero raid gunman in grogan row is trapped three held squealer who knocked boss down m city hall saved from death by police ar rival pistol at his stomach lust at the time when state's attor ney llaclay hoyne was proclaiming his investigators had uncovered a gigantic vote registration fraud scheme instigated by crooked poli ticians m the eighteenth ward there came flashing over the police wires tote yesterday afternoon the news that gunmen had made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to take the life of a squealer who had vio lated underworld ethics by disclos ing the operations by which poll lists were padded the intended victim was loscph j cordon proprietor of a jewelry store at 14 south canal street ac i cused by barney grogan saloonkeep er-politician and boss of the ki^ht eenth ward of being a stool pigeon " for the prosecutor m the vote fraud investigation the attempted shoot ing was the aftermath of a fist fiprht between grogan and gordon m the city hall the day before when the jeweler hit grogan on the jaw and sent him sprawling to the floor gro san told his friends he would get gordon it was the lightning-like work of hoyne's detectives and co-operation with the desplaines street police which saved gordon from being shot m cold blood gordon had told his friends the gunmen were on his trail hoyne's office notified these friends m turn notified hoyne's office and the desplaines street station as a result three men were caught surrounding gordon at monroe and canal streets just as one of them had the barrel of a cocked revolver forced a"gainst the squeal er's stomach a fight followed but the men were overpowered and ar rested the men under arrest are thomas geary 1755 west mon roe street edward pinkerton 2040 west monroe street charles connelly 1705 cuyler avenue excitement prevailed at the corner when the police captured the men suburbanites on their way home missed their trains and increased the throng of spectators it was with dif ficulty that the police took their pris oners away gordon too was taken but only as a witness while the patrol wagon was on the way to the station it was met by hoyne's detectives who after notify ing the police of the plajn to kill gor mrs thompson iii cancels stumping mrs william hale thompson finds campaigning for her husband con stitutionally trying yesterday a se vere cold canceled her talk m eagle's hall ninety-second and houston streets where a william hale thompson for mayor club was or ganized by 200 women audacious repaired will eejoin fleet new york feb 13 â€” the follow ing dispatch is printed here to-day the audacious one of great brit ain's fii^st and most powerful bat tleships of tht superdreadnought class will rejoin the fleet next week she will leave the shipyards of har land & wolff belfast on monday without a flaw m her hull or arma ment in the light of the news received here the audacious although badly crippled by a german torpedo or mine was not sunk with her wounded hull bound she remained afloat and was safely guided into diyilock french deputies put ban on absinthe sale paris feb 12 the sale of ab i sinthe m france is prohibited m a bill adopted by the chamber of i deputies the measure now goes to i the senate indemnities will be grant ed m;in'ti;h-iure.rs affected by the bill the bill hfso applies to algeria and the colonies and will be proposed for adoption by the protectorates Illinois song saves 2 500 lives when hall burns crowd from wisconsin and illi nois escape m long beach incendiary fire long beach cal feb 12.â€”sing ing of Illinois my Illinois pre vented a panic among 2,500 people mostly from Illinois and wisconsin celebrating lincoln's birthday m the municipal auditorium to-day when fire was started by an incendiary the fourth attempt at arson made on the auditorium and the pier to-day a member of the band mounted the platform and told the audience that the fire was not serious one man is under arrest the city was m a panic all day fearing a repetition of the kmpire day disaster challenges wilson to golf for job washington feb 12 chairman fitzgerald of the holism committee on appropriations challenged pres ident wilson to a game of golf with a slice of patronage for the stakes to-day after discussing legislation the president asked how's your golf these days â€¢ xot very good replied fitzger ald but i'll play you for a job any day you say king george cuts pay of royal chef london feb 12 â€” king george is setting an example of economy m war time to his subjects m cedard head chef at buckingham palace has agreed to accept a 50 per cent reduc tion m his 12,500 salary during the war the cooking at the palace is now of the plainest character the average daily cost of the royal dinner prior to the war was estimated at 4.65 iowa senate passes suffrage bill 38 to 11 des fcioines lowa feb 12 â€” fewer than twenty minutes was re quired by the lowa senate to-day to adopt a constitutional amendment resolution providing for equal suf frage the vote was 38 to 11 there was no discussion the measure must be passed by the house and submit ted to the people it was passed by the general assembly two years ago smith sleeps as his trip to gaellows nears collapse of girl's slayer to be hanged this morning at last minute feared hoswell c f smith doomed to die on the gallows at 10 o'clock this morning for the murder of little hazel weinstein dozed into a sleep at the county jail shortly after midnight and was resting quietly at 3:30 o'clock smith employed the early morning hours of his last day on earth m close application to his prayerbook his spiritual adviser departed about 1 o'clock prison guards on the death watch dimmed the corridor lights and left the slayer alone for some time he could be heard mumbling alter nating m prayer and hymns then all was silent tiptoeing to the cell door the guards found smith had fallen asleep on his cot he still grasped the prayerbook breakfast at 7 o'clock smith will have breakfast this morning at 7 o'clock and the prepara i tions for his march to the gallows j will begin in his death cell yesterday smith ] was m a state of partial collapse from : which he roused at intervals to ex j press a wild hope that governor i dunne would interfere or if that failed that he might be put to death jn a surgeon's operating table m the ] interests of science and thus be saved from the hangman's noose â€¢ he did not know that governor dunne had refused the last plea for a reprieve made on the ground of mi i sanity and the knowledge was care | fully withheld from him by jailer | will t davies for fear the condemned man would lose his last remnant of i courage i collapse is feared fearing that smith might collapse | before the might ended his guards j at 9 o'clock last night escorted him | to the office of jailer davies where i he was greeted by davies and dr ! irving f barnett they began a con versation with him which lasted until midnight most of it referring to smith's hope that governor dunne would interfere xot a hint of the governor's ad i verse ruling was givein to the man i whose lite was numbered by hours the prospect of sending smith to his death affected jailer davies strongly during the evening he became ill soon after the dinner i hour as he did before the hanging of the guelzow slayers and went for a long walk after which he tested the scaffold with a 200-pound bag of sand and pronounced it ready for its grewsome function this morn j ing then he was given an alcohol rub and wrapped himself m warm i blankets and retired i dtjjfne refuses reprieve mrs smith the slayer's mother and | his lawyer harry j meyerovitz made i a vain journey to springfield yester | day cariying a petition asking that ' smith be granted a reprieve and his mental state more carefully investi gated the governor's answer was that \ alieinsts had carefully examined ' young smith and found him to be j sane with a full knowledge of the j difference between right and wrong ! and of the gravity of his crime this is the worst case 1 have ever | experienced and i have witnessed | thirty-five hangings said jailer da vies smith may have to be carried i to the gallows the rev benjamin aldrich pastor of the new first congregational church smith's spiritual adviser was with him last night for a time and i he will accompany him this morning : m the brief walk to the gallows grand jury is asked in racine bank closing frenzied finance is blamed on officers at meeting of stockholders b.mking methods that make the walshes and the lorimers and the mundays of fact and the wallingfords of fiction appear as kindergartners m high finance are charged m a report of a stockholders investigating com mittee of the commercial & savings bank of racine made public at a mass meeting m the wisconsin city last night the charges grow out of the clos ing of the bank by state bank com missioner kuolt last september and the long drawn out investigation which came to a climax with the pub lication on january 20 of the bank's inventory of assets interlocking directorates loans to wavering companies with stock of doubtful value as collateral personal and unguaranteed loans by the bank to its officers and finally the with drawl by an officer five days be fore the bank closed its doors of 5100,000 are some of the things charged by the angry depositors and stockholders graa'd jury asked a grand jury has already been asked for and the end will be only when the last director and bank of ficer has been held to an account ing say the stookholders a committee composed of dr e a taylor frank j miller dr t s keech benjamin evans john scott and thomas collier reported to the 2,500 depositors and stockholders who gathered m dania hall the re sults of a six-weeks investigation into the bank's affairs the report makes nine separate di visions and is signed by each of the six members of the committee section two of the report goes into actual figures and states that while the bank's books show m loans and discounts 2,365,859.46 tallying with the inventory less than one-half of this amount is collateral that can be cashed for face value for the benefit of the asset-hungry stockholders and depositors in section three of the report the direct charge is made that the cashier and certain of the directors of the bank are indebted to it either directly or indirectly m very large amounts some of these loans have been made to institutions m which officers or directors of the bank were largely interested and others appear to have been made to the cashier and certain directors personally 1,000,000 ix loans loans made m this way it is be lieved will exceed 1,000,000 section four mak-es the charge the bank permitted certain favored cus tomers to overdraw their accounts without reasonable restraint section five makes the following declaration this committee is of the opinion that the executive officers of the bank disregarded the plain provisions of the laws of wisconsin in making many of the loans listed m them ! ventory and your committee has fur i ther information of practices alleged j to have been followed by executive officers of the bank m the making of loans and m the extending of credits to certain of the bank's customers of such character as to lead the commit i tee to believe and to report that an immediate and searching investiga tion into the affairs of the bank un der the direction of the court is im peratively demanded tells op interlocking at the mass meeting dr keech outlined some of the interlocking di rectors schemes he said the commit tee had discovered and made the di rect charge that five days before the bank closed its doors one of the offi cers withdrew 100,000 m currency and left his personal note as the bank's only collateral the united refrigerator company of kenosha now m bankruptcy is one of the interests said dr keech charles carpenter the cashier and the directors of the bank loaned the refrigerator company 400,000 eight years before bank commissioner kuolt then . a bank official m kenosha refused to loan money on this stock carpenter had stock m this company dr keech has appealed to judge e b belden of the circuit court for a special grand jury to investigate the bank's affairs and a formal petition i will be presented tuesday the i trades and i â– â– 'â– ' council has made la similar dema !. there are is mo savings depodftor largely working man cashier carpenter refuscj to make aay statement las night i'm strictly neutral but here's something for both of you poland will be independent with austrian as king petrograd feb 12 poland has been proclaimed an independent state and will soon choose a king accord ing to a dispatch from an apparently authentic source here to-day ac cording to the dispatch poland's in dependence has been recognized by both germany and austria to become operative february 14 the poles will hold a convention and name a monarch the report says that same day at cracow galicia the crown it is believed will be offered to arch duke karl stephen of austria the new monarch of the kingdom of poland will be chosen by delegates from all parts of poland and galicia now m the possession of the germans and austrians the delegates them selves being chosen by popular bal lot germany is said to have prom ised^the proposed kingdom the terri tory of german silesia pending the convention temporary government of the new baby power " is being headed by ignatz daschin sky socialist member of the austrian reichstag off once in 30 years dr young will rest f6r thirty years dr abram van ep'i young has been head of north western university chemistry de partment beiim absent one semester m that time next week it was an nounced yesterday he will retire and go traveling allied sky squadron attacks submarine bases of germans london feb 12 the greatest air-land battle of the war and there fore of the world's history m which thirty-four aeroplanes and seaplanes of the allies were engage 1 ! with the german anti-aircraft squads along the coast of belgium took place to day over ostend bruges zeebrugge and blankenburgh during the battle which lasted several hours and was aimed to wreck the german submarine bases an<j thus prevent the threatened blockade of the british isles aviator claude grahame-white now a brit ish flight commander who married an american girl and has made many flights m the unltel states nearly lost his life m the north sea the official press bureau of the ad miralty m an official statement given out to-night gives the follow ing vivid description of the battle during the last twenty-four hours combined aeroplane and seaplane operations have been carried out by the naval wing m the bruges zeebrugge blanken bergh and ostend districts with a view tfo preventing the devel opment of the german submarine bases and establishments thirty-four aeroplanes aad sea planes participated m the oper ations and great damage is re ported to have been done to the ostend railway station which was probably burned to the ground the railway station at blankenburgh was damaged and the railway lines were torn un m many places bombs were dropped on the gun positions at middlekerke and also on the power station and the german mine sweepers at zeebrugge where the extent of the damage is unknown during the attack heavy banks of snow were encountered no submarines vere seen flight commander claude gra hame-white fell into the sea off nieuport and was rescued by a french vessel although exposed to heavy gunfire from rifles anti-aircraft guns and quick-firing guns all the pilots returned safely and but two of the machines were damaged during the raid the operations were under ihe command of wing commanders samson and longmore and squadron commanders porte courtney and rathbone that tly4 iu:idron was at ea?t partly suaÃŸsful m ir.s mission is admitted tp an official statement jssupd m rvrlin to-day which says alter a ong interval hostile war ships yesterday reappeared off the new note to kaiser u.s.alone inprotest delaying of van dyke's mail brings a prompt action by the state department britain's flag reply received beelin via london feb 13 â€” james w gerard american am bassador called on foreign secre tary von jagow at 6 o'clock last evening and presented to him the american government's note con cerning the german sea war zone proclamation london febt 12 the big british steamer torquay was towed into scarborough harbor sinking to day as a result it is believe j . of being torepdoed by a german sub marine or striking a mine eight miles outside the harbor the ves sel was badly damaged amidships one of its boilers was penetrated the explosion killing one fireman and injuring two others washington feb 11 the l'nited states to-day sent a second note to germany on the subject of the complaints of minister van dyke that german military authorities iv luxemburg had delayed his mail this government so far stand 3 alone m its protests to great britain and germany on the use of neutral j flags by british ships and on the i german threats against neutral ves | sels m the war zone about the brit ! ish isles it has not asked and will | not ask the support of other nationi | cabinet backs ; wilson's demand the cabinet meeting to-day backed j president wilson m his demands to | both belligerents although members ! of the cabinet after the meeting re fused to discuss what action had ' been taken great britain's reply to the amer i ican note has been received and is being translated from the cipher this may require several days aa j the reply contains 0,000 to 7,000 i words the misuse of the american flag by gnat britain and the threat by germany against neutral shipping entering the north sea war zone after february 18 are questions upon which the united states prefers to j make its own representation and deal i with m every phase as the judgment of its own state department may dictate welcome similar action by other neutrals this does not mean that the j united states would not be pleased ito have other neutrals make simi i lar representations to those forward ed by this government it means only that the united states wishes to conduct m its own way the diplo matic negotiations on the issue which this government has raised members of the foreign affairs ] committee of the two houses were j not inclined to-day to discuss freely ! and for publication the terms of the | notes sent to great britain and ocr i many senator stone chairman of the | senate foreign affairs committee was of course an exception as the representative of the administration lin congress his indorsement was expected he gave it m thetlft words i think the notes were continued on 7th page ist column yontinusd o 2d page sth cojumn i b_mu to i â– â€” â€”â€” a â€” m 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Chicago examiner vol xiii no 46 a m saturday rrucc vjimh v~hini suluibi two cknt3 Chicago february 13 1915 saturday regiblered c s patent offic 34 airships shell ostehd in greatest aero raid gunman in grogan row is trapped three held squealer who knocked boss down m city hall saved from death by police ar rival pistol at his stomach lust at the time when state's attor ney llaclay hoyne was proclaiming his investigators had uncovered a gigantic vote registration fraud scheme instigated by crooked poli ticians m the eighteenth ward there came flashing over the police wires tote yesterday afternoon the news that gunmen had made a desperate but unsuccessful attempt to take the life of a squealer who had vio lated underworld ethics by disclos ing the operations by which poll lists were padded the intended victim was loscph j cordon proprietor of a jewelry store at 14 south canal street ac i cused by barney grogan saloonkeep er-politician and boss of the ki^ht eenth ward of being a stool pigeon " for the prosecutor m the vote fraud investigation the attempted shoot ing was the aftermath of a fist fiprht between grogan and gordon m the city hall the day before when the jeweler hit grogan on the jaw and sent him sprawling to the floor gro san told his friends he would get gordon it was the lightning-like work of hoyne's detectives and co-operation with the desplaines street police which saved gordon from being shot m cold blood gordon had told his friends the gunmen were on his trail hoyne's office notified these friends m turn notified hoyne's office and the desplaines street station as a result three men were caught surrounding gordon at monroe and canal streets just as one of them had the barrel of a cocked revolver forced a"gainst the squeal er's stomach a fight followed but the men were overpowered and ar rested the men under arrest are thomas geary 1755 west mon roe street edward pinkerton 2040 west monroe street charles connelly 1705 cuyler avenue excitement prevailed at the corner when the police captured the men suburbanites on their way home missed their trains and increased the throng of spectators it was with dif ficulty that the police took their pris oners away gordon too was taken but only as a witness while the patrol wagon was on the way to the station it was met by hoyne's detectives who after notify ing the police of the plajn to kill gor mrs thompson iii cancels stumping mrs william hale thompson finds campaigning for her husband con stitutionally trying yesterday a se vere cold canceled her talk m eagle's hall ninety-second and houston streets where a william hale thompson for mayor club was or ganized by 200 women audacious repaired will eejoin fleet new york feb 13 â€” the follow ing dispatch is printed here to-day the audacious one of great brit ain's fii^st and most powerful bat tleships of tht superdreadnought class will rejoin the fleet next week she will leave the shipyards of har land & wolff belfast on monday without a flaw m her hull or arma ment in the light of the news received here the audacious although badly crippled by a german torpedo or mine was not sunk with her wounded hull bound she remained afloat and was safely guided into diyilock french deputies put ban on absinthe sale paris feb 12 the sale of ab i sinthe m france is prohibited m a bill adopted by the chamber of i deputies the measure now goes to i the senate indemnities will be grant ed m;in'ti;h-iure.rs affected by the bill the bill hfso applies to algeria and the colonies and will be proposed for adoption by the protectorates Illinois song saves 2 500 lives when hall burns crowd from wisconsin and illi nois escape m long beach incendiary fire long beach cal feb 12.â€”sing ing of Illinois my Illinois pre vented a panic among 2,500 people mostly from Illinois and wisconsin celebrating lincoln's birthday m the municipal auditorium to-day when fire was started by an incendiary the fourth attempt at arson made on the auditorium and the pier to-day a member of the band mounted the platform and told the audience that the fire was not serious one man is under arrest the city was m a panic all day fearing a repetition of the kmpire day disaster challenges wilson to golf for job washington feb 12 chairman fitzgerald of the holism committee on appropriations challenged pres ident wilson to a game of golf with a slice of patronage for the stakes to-day after discussing legislation the president asked how's your golf these days â€¢ xot very good replied fitzger ald but i'll play you for a job any day you say king george cuts pay of royal chef london feb 12 â€” king george is setting an example of economy m war time to his subjects m cedard head chef at buckingham palace has agreed to accept a 50 per cent reduc tion m his 12,500 salary during the war the cooking at the palace is now of the plainest character the average daily cost of the royal dinner prior to the war was estimated at 4.65 iowa senate passes suffrage bill 38 to 11 des fcioines lowa feb 12 â€” fewer than twenty minutes was re quired by the lowa senate to-day to adopt a constitutional amendment resolution providing for equal suf frage the vote was 38 to 11 there was no discussion the measure must be passed by the house and submit ted to the people it was passed by the general assembly two years ago smith sleeps as his trip to gaellows nears collapse of girl's slayer to be hanged this morning at last minute feared hoswell c f smith doomed to die on the gallows at 10 o'clock this morning for the murder of little hazel weinstein dozed into a sleep at the county jail shortly after midnight and was resting quietly at 3:30 o'clock smith employed the early morning hours of his last day on earth m close application to his prayerbook his spiritual adviser departed about 1 o'clock prison guards on the death watch dimmed the corridor lights and left the slayer alone for some time he could be heard mumbling alter nating m prayer and hymns then all was silent tiptoeing to the cell door the guards found smith had fallen asleep on his cot he still grasped the prayerbook breakfast at 7 o'clock smith will have breakfast this morning at 7 o'clock and the prepara i tions for his march to the gallows j will begin in his death cell yesterday smith ] was m a state of partial collapse from : which he roused at intervals to ex j press a wild hope that governor i dunne would interfere or if that failed that he might be put to death jn a surgeon's operating table m the ] interests of science and thus be saved from the hangman's noose â€¢ he did not know that governor dunne had refused the last plea for a reprieve made on the ground of mi i sanity and the knowledge was care | fully withheld from him by jailer | will t davies for fear the condemned man would lose his last remnant of i courage i collapse is feared fearing that smith might collapse | before the might ended his guards j at 9 o'clock last night escorted him | to the office of jailer davies where i he was greeted by davies and dr ! irving f barnett they began a con versation with him which lasted until midnight most of it referring to smith's hope that governor dunne would interfere xot a hint of the governor's ad i verse ruling was givein to the man i whose lite was numbered by hours the prospect of sending smith to his death affected jailer davies strongly during the evening he became ill soon after the dinner i hour as he did before the hanging of the guelzow slayers and went for a long walk after which he tested the scaffold with a 200-pound bag of sand and pronounced it ready for its grewsome function this morn j ing then he was given an alcohol rub and wrapped himself m warm i blankets and retired i dtjjfne refuses reprieve mrs smith the slayer's mother and | his lawyer harry j meyerovitz made i a vain journey to springfield yester | day cariying a petition asking that ' smith be granted a reprieve and his mental state more carefully investi gated the governor's answer was that \ alieinsts had carefully examined ' young smith and found him to be j sane with a full knowledge of the j difference between right and wrong ! and of the gravity of his crime this is the worst case 1 have ever | experienced and i have witnessed | thirty-five hangings said jailer da vies smith may have to be carried i to the gallows the rev benjamin aldrich pastor of the new first congregational church smith's spiritual adviser was with him last night for a time and i he will accompany him this morning : m the brief walk to the gallows grand jury is asked in racine bank closing frenzied finance is blamed on officers at meeting of stockholders b.mking methods that make the walshes and the lorimers and the mundays of fact and the wallingfords of fiction appear as kindergartners m high finance are charged m a report of a stockholders investigating com mittee of the commercial & savings bank of racine made public at a mass meeting m the wisconsin city last night the charges grow out of the clos ing of the bank by state bank com missioner kuolt last september and the long drawn out investigation which came to a climax with the pub lication on january 20 of the bank's inventory of assets interlocking directorates loans to wavering companies with stock of doubtful value as collateral personal and unguaranteed loans by the bank to its officers and finally the with drawl by an officer five days be fore the bank closed its doors of 5100,000 are some of the things charged by the angry depositors and stockholders graa'd jury asked a grand jury has already been asked for and the end will be only when the last director and bank of ficer has been held to an account ing say the stookholders a committee composed of dr e a taylor frank j miller dr t s keech benjamin evans john scott and thomas collier reported to the 2,500 depositors and stockholders who gathered m dania hall the re sults of a six-weeks investigation into the bank's affairs the report makes nine separate di visions and is signed by each of the six members of the committee section two of the report goes into actual figures and states that while the bank's books show m loans and discounts 2,365,859.46 tallying with the inventory less than one-half of this amount is collateral that can be cashed for face value for the benefit of the asset-hungry stockholders and depositors in section three of the report the direct charge is made that the cashier and certain of the directors of the bank are indebted to it either directly or indirectly m very large amounts some of these loans have been made to institutions m which officers or directors of the bank were largely interested and others appear to have been made to the cashier and certain directors personally 1,000,000 ix loans loans made m this way it is be lieved will exceed 1,000,000 section four mak-es the charge the bank permitted certain favored cus tomers to overdraw their accounts without reasonable restraint section five makes the following declaration this committee is of the opinion that the executive officers of the bank disregarded the plain provisions of the laws of wisconsin in making many of the loans listed m them ! ventory and your committee has fur i ther information of practices alleged j to have been followed by executive officers of the bank m the making of loans and m the extending of credits to certain of the bank's customers of such character as to lead the commit i tee to believe and to report that an immediate and searching investiga tion into the affairs of the bank un der the direction of the court is im peratively demanded tells op interlocking at the mass meeting dr keech outlined some of the interlocking di rectors schemes he said the commit tee had discovered and made the di rect charge that five days before the bank closed its doors one of the offi cers withdrew 100,000 m currency and left his personal note as the bank's only collateral the united refrigerator company of kenosha now m bankruptcy is one of the interests said dr keech charles carpenter the cashier and the directors of the bank loaned the refrigerator company 400,000 eight years before bank commissioner kuolt then . a bank official m kenosha refused to loan money on this stock carpenter had stock m this company dr keech has appealed to judge e b belden of the circuit court for a special grand jury to investigate the bank's affairs and a formal petition i will be presented tuesday the i trades and i â– â– 'â– ' council has made la similar dema !. there are is mo savings depodftor largely working man cashier carpenter refuscj to make aay statement las night i'm strictly neutral but here's something for both of you poland will be independent with austrian as king petrograd feb 12 poland has been proclaimed an independent state and will soon choose a king accord ing to a dispatch from an apparently authentic source here to-day ac cording to the dispatch poland's in dependence has been recognized by both germany and austria to become operative february 14 the poles will hold a convention and name a monarch the report says that same day at cracow galicia the crown it is believed will be offered to arch duke karl stephen of austria the new monarch of the kingdom of poland will be chosen by delegates from all parts of poland and galicia now m the possession of the germans and austrians the delegates them selves being chosen by popular bal lot germany is said to have prom ised^the proposed kingdom the terri tory of german silesia pending the convention temporary government of the new baby power " is being headed by ignatz daschin sky socialist member of the austrian reichstag off once in 30 years dr young will rest f6r thirty years dr abram van ep'i young has been head of north western university chemistry de partment beiim absent one semester m that time next week it was an nounced yesterday he will retire and go traveling allied sky squadron attacks submarine bases of germans london feb 12 the greatest air-land battle of the war and there fore of the world's history m which thirty-four aeroplanes and seaplanes of the allies were engage 1 ! with the german anti-aircraft squads along the coast of belgium took place to day over ostend bruges zeebrugge and blankenburgh during the battle which lasted several hours and was aimed to wreck the german submarine bases anllfu jl jim butb 4 meat utar city 50 im on auto t icculflt roÂ«d bulldlnn spring etc de coudres 7 bros 74 w washington st oiirago ia/^-^l't'rl 11-Â»/4 lni>evki.oped land mÂ«l improved farrm m vv ctillil dilvl nark comity west wssell co dent e niill'-rille wis h^n^mopp jl dowx and 50 rr-nts ppr month nest farm land t ldl/pincoo m michigan michigan central park x x co . bank floor kealicr block c'hii:ago pure air sunshine and work m the great outdoors â€” â€¢ this is health for anyone wealth â€” not measured by dollars but by content plenty and the assurance of ever increasing profits and 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